Improvement in surcingles



G. M. WARR.

Surcingle.

No. 219,372. Patehted Sept. 9,1879.

Fi3zL NITED STAIES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. WARR, OF GHELSEA, MASSAOHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SURCINGLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219.372, dated September 9, 1879; application filed August 2, 1879.

T0 all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. WARR, of Chelsea, county of Middlesex, State of Massaehusetts, have invented an Improvemcnt in Surcingles, of which the fbllowing description,

- in connection with the accompanying draW- ings, is a specification.

This invention relates to surdingles of that Glass wherein theSurcingle is provided with a spring or springs which enable it to yield to the body of the horse.

In this present form of my invention I employ an india-rubber ring, located at the outer side or face of the baek-pad, one part of the said ring hein g connected with the said baokpad by a 100p, while another part of the said ring is engaged by one end of the under or girth strap.

Figure 1 represents, in side view, a sufficient portion of a surcinglc to illustrace my present improvements, and Fig. 2 an edge view of Fig. 1.

The back-pad a, of leather, has an inncr portion, 1), also preferably of lcather, the space between the two being stufted t0 usual shape, as shown in Fig. 2.

The spring 0 is heren shown as made of in dia-rubber, in the form et a ring, it being bent somewhat together and confined at or nearits center under a guide-100p, d, attached to the back-pad. One portion of this india-rubber ring is engaged and held by means of a 100p, c, and buckle f, attached to the baek-pad, and another or lower portion of this spring is embraced by the narrow'strap g, which is connected at one end with the under or belly girth, 7L, made of Ieather or webbing, while the other end'of the strap g, extended through a slot, z, in the back-pad, and thence through and about the spring, is connected With the bucklej, also attached to the girth h.

By this construction it will be seen, as the girth or surcingle is drawn closely about the body of the horse, that the india-rubber spring yields or clongates, while the 100p d holds and directs it.

This spring, made as a round rubber ring, is very strong and easily applied to a sureingle, and in case it is broken a new ring may be easily and quickly substituted for the old' one.

The point to which the ring may be extended is limited by the siot 1: in 111e back-pad, as the back-pad near the said slot limits further morement et the part 9, looped about it and the spring, and consequently stops the further elongation of the spring; V

I am aware that fiat straps of india-rubber have been employed in surcingles.

I claimv 1. The combination, with the back-pad and under girth, of an interposed flexible ring, as shown and described. m

2. The baok-pad. the flexible ring or 100p, and the strap and buekle to attach the ring or 100p to the back-pad, combined with the lower girth and its end strap, g, extended through a guide slot or opening at the lower end of the pad and through the ring 01' 100p, no limit the extension of the said loop,-substantially as de- In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesscs.

GEORGE M. WARR. Witnesses:

HAS. E. HIBBARD, J. T. CRONIN. 

